I will be on the look out for you, my dear girl, he wrote. You must expect to give yourself up when you come. For this buttoned-up age, for Burnham, it was a letter that could have steamed itself open...
I think my thought and imagination contain the picture and perceive its significance from every point of view. I have to force myself not to dwell upon it to avoid the sort of numbness that comes from...
I do not employ researchers, nor did I conduct any primary research using the Internet. I need physical contact with my sources, and there's only one way to get it. To me every trip to a library or ar...
He sensed a rising hysteria among midlevel leaders of the Nazi Party, expressed as a belief that the only safety lies in getting everybody in jail.
He became one of the few voices in U.S. government to warn of the true ambitions of Hitler
Hardly anyone thought that the threats against the Jews were meant seriously, wrote Carl Zuckmayer, a Jewish writer. Even many Jews considered the savage anti-Semitic rantings of the Nazis merely a pr...
Had we been called upon by the Staff to do so, Hope wrote, referring to Oliver, we could have furnished valuable information as to movements of submarines, minefields, minesweeping etc. But the Staff...
Great murderers, like great men in other walks of activity, have blue eyes.
German people, he said, would follow Hitler with absolute loyalty provided they are allowed to have a share in the making and carrying out of decisions, provided every word of criticism is not immedia...
Five years later, during the final assault on Berlin, a Russian shell scored a direct hit on a stable at the western end of the Tiergarten. The adjacent Kurfürstendamm, once one of Berlin’s prime shop...
Far from a clamor for war, there existed a widespread, if naive, belief that war of the kind that had convulsed Europe in past centuries had become obsolete—that the economies of nations were so close...
Captain Hall had no direct control over Room 40—as of early 1915 his intelligence division and Room 40 were separate entities—but his name more than any other would come to be associated with its achi...
Burnham’s frequent admonition: Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood. Burnham
Boswell and Thompson write, Every night the rooms on the two upper floors of the Castle were filled to overflowing. Holmes reluctantly accommodated a few men as paying guests, but catered primarily to...
At the Quebec prison, he had read Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope, then had autographed the book and given it to a guard for a souvenir.
At first alienists describes this condition as moral insanity and those who exhibited the disorder as moral imbeciles. They later adopted the term psychopath.
As the light began to fade, the architects lit the library’s gas jets, which hissed like mildly perturbed cats.
Anyone looking up from the dock saw only beauty, on a monumental scale, while on the far side of the ship men turned black with dust as they shoveled coal—5,690 tons in all—into the ship through openi...
All the ship had to do was make another turn, away from U-20, and the chase would be over.
Why were the State Department and President Roosevelt so hesitant to express in frank terms how they really felt about Hitler at a time when such expressions clearly could have had a powerful effect o...